Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Sorana Cirstea will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Australian Open for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 10:00 pm on Rod Laver Arena. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 1.77
Sorana Cirstea -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sorana Cirstea
This will be the 7th time that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Sorana Cirstea face off. The head to head is 3-3 (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Pavlyuchenkova won 2-6 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Eastbourne back in 2018.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 18-9 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 24-17 | 6-8 | 15-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 2-3 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 29-20 | 12-11 | 10-3 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-8 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 11 (career-high), Anastasia got to the 3rd round after beating Anna Bondar 6-2 6-1 and Samantha Stosur 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Pavlyuchenkova had a good straight sets win against Stosur (6-2 6-2). During the match, Pavlyuchenkova scored 59 points vs Stosur’s 40. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pavlyuchenkova made 3 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Pavlyuchenkova put 76% of her first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (4/12) on the 2nd serve. Anastasia was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Stosur 5 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Anastasia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 61% of the points she played.
Pavlyuchenkova has a favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of her matches (249-188). 2-0 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Pavlyuchenkova has an overall 136-108 record in the last years on hard.
Anastasia has a composed 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Sorana Cirstea
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 9-9 | 9-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 31-22 | 21-14 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 22-21 | 10-10 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
2021 | 24-18 | 11-10 | 11-3 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 15-10 | 14-6 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 38, the Romanian got to the 3rd round after beating Petra Kvitova 6-2 6-2 and Kristina Kucova 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Cirstea had a good straight sets win against Kucova (6-2 6-4). During the match Cirstea scored 65 points vs Kucova’s 46. Sorana was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Cirstea blasted 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sorana Cirstea lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cirstea put 63% of her first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the 2nd serve. Sorana broke Kucova 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sorana started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points she played.
Cirstea has an aggregate 3-2 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2017. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Pavlyuchenkova | Cirstea |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
Tot Games | 31 | 34 |
Pts | 117-74 | 125-87 |
Total Points | 191 | 212 |
Winners | 60 | 42 |
%Winners | 51% | 34% |
Both Pavlyuchenkova and Cirstea played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pavlyuchenkova and Cirstea have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Pavlyuchenkova played 3 games less than Cirstea. Anastasia scored 60 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Cirstea fired 42 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Pavlyuchenkova | Cirstea |
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Aces | 3 | 5 |
Avg per match | 1.5 | 2.5 |
1st in | 81/98 | 60/100 |
%1st in | 83% | 60% |
1st pts | 60/81 | 42/60 |
%1st pts | 74% | 70% |
2nd pts | 8/17 | 27/40 |
%2nd pts | 47% | 68% |
Pavlyuchenkova blasted 3 aces (1.5 per match). Cirstea blasted 5 aces (2.5 per match). Pavlyuchenkova won 74% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Cirstea won 70% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Pavlyuchenkova | Cirstea |
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Won | 9 | 9 |
Converted | 9/14 | 9/20 |
% Converted | 64% | 45% |
Conceded | 4 | 7 |
Saved | 3 | 5 |
% Saved | 75% | 71% |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Anastasia broke her opponents 9 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Russian surrendered her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. The Romanian broke her opponents 9 times with a 45% conversion rate. Sorana conceded her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded.
Pavlyuchenkova | ||||
R1 Bondar |
R2 Stosur |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 16 | 31 | |
pts | 58-34 | 59-40 | 117-74 | |
Total points | 92 | 99 | 191 | |
Winners | 32 | 28 | 60 | |
%Winners | 55% | 47% | 51% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
1st in | 44/49 | 37/49 | 81/98 | |
% 1st in | 90% | 76% | 83% | |
1st pts | 32/44 | 28/37 | 60/81 | |
% 1st pts | 73% | 76% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 4/5 | 4/12 | 8/17 | |
% 2nd pts | 80% | 33% | 47% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
Converted | 4/9 | 5/5 | 9/14 | |
Converted % | 44% | 100% | 64% | |
Conceded | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
Saved | 1/1 | 2/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 67% | 84% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cirstea | ||||
R1 Kvitova |
R2 Kucova |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 18 | 34 | |
pts | 60-41 | 65-46 | 125-87 | |
Total points | 101 | 111 | 212 | |
Winners | 22 | 20 | 42 | |
%Winners | 37% | 31% | 34% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
1st in | 30/52 | 30/48 | 60/100 | |
% 1st in | 58% | 63% | 60% | |
1st pts | 22/30 | 20/30 | 42/60 | |
% 1st pts | 73% | 67% | 70% | |
2nd pts | 14/22 | 13/18 | 27/40 | |
% 2nd pts | 64% | 72% | 68% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
Converted | 4/7 | 5/13 | 9/20 | |
Converted % | 57% | 38% | 45% | |
Conceded | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
Saved | 2/2 | 3/5 | 5 | |
Saved % | 100% | 60% | 80% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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